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Blaine: LOL What magical
powers?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 5:09
PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Graven
images
Blaine: the problem with graven images has always been that
sooner or
later, people get (got) around to worshipping them and ascribing
living
qualities and magical powers to them.
Does that mean you do not accept the magical powers ascribed to LDS
undergarments?
Blaine:
the problem with graven images has always been that sooner or
later,
people get (got) around to worshipping them and ascribing
living
qualities and magical powers to them. This gave the priests of
such images
power to make up new rules, and doctrines such as sacrificing
children,
committing whoredomes, etc., which was the real problem, more
than the image
itself.
Moroni is no threat along these lines,
because a) we do not ascribe living
or magical powers to the statues, and
b) we do not worship them. The
statues are simply there to remind us
synbolically that the scripture in the
Book of Revelations concerning
"another angel" flying in the midst of heaven
having the everlasting
gospel to preach to all nations, kindreds, tongues
and people was
fulfilled when Moroni (the angel) appeared to Joseph Smith a
number of
times, and event! ually committed to him the plates from which the
Book
of Mormon was translated. The BoM is believed to contain the
everlasting
gospel in its original purity, as believed in and practiced by
the early
saints.
By the way, what about the crosses most Christian Churches have?
Are these
not "images" of things on earth? Yet you don't seem to worship
them ,
although some people seem to ascribe magical powers to them, as
they wear
these symbols around their necks. Is this correct? Some beliefs
even go so
far as to assume the crosses themselves can ward off evil
spirits??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Perry
Locke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent:
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:44 PM
Subject: [TruthTalk] Graven
images
> Blaine and DavidM,
>
> Can help me to
understand the following?
>
> Exodus 20:4 states the second of
the commandments: " Thou shalt not make
> ! unto thee any graven
image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
> above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
>
earth."
>
> Now, on every LDS temple I have seen there is a gold
statue of Moroni on
> one of the spires. Doesn't this violate the "any
graven image, or any
> likeness of any thing that is in heaven above"
part of the second
> commandment?
>
> If not, why not.
Isn't the statue a "graven image", or "likeness"? Isn't
> Moroni "in
heaven above"?
>
> Thanks,
> Perry
>
>
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